Volume 4 - Issue 4 - Winter 2012

Three U.S. Presidents are now a part of Ohio City’s rich history.  President Barrack Obama made a surprise visit to the West Side Market during this year’s Market Centennial.  Candidate Ronald Reagan campaigned at the Market in 1980.  More than a century earlier, long before entering politics, James A. Garfield preached at Franklin Circle Christian Church.  Yet there always has been one lingering question surrounding the lore about Garfield: Was this lay minister’s preaching time here cut short because of a pay dispute?  We now know the answer is “yes,” confirmed by a fragile copy of The Plain Dealer dated April 9, 1894.                       .